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NWSB Insider & Managing Editor “Q” tells us college football is also getting ready to get into their spring practices and four Pac 12 programs are looking ahead to the regular season, which kicks off in September. The Oregon Ducks, Oregon State Beavers, Washington St. Cougars, and Washington Huskies will all return competitive teams in the 2012 Pac 12 season.
NWSB insider Jason Green brings us a matchup between the top 2 RB’s in the Pac-12 this last season. This Tale of the Tape compares Oregon’s LaMichael James and Washington’s Chris Polk. Polk may be the stronger, better all-around back while James is faster and small enough to be elusive.
NWSB Pac 12 Insider Jason Green weighs in with a short piece detailing the Pac 12 football players from the Oregon Ducks, Washington Huskies and Oregon State Beavers that have been invited to Indianapolis Indiana for the 2012 NFL Combine. LaMichael James, Chris Polk, Darron Thomas, Cliff Harris, Senio Kelemete, James Rodgers, Jermaine Kearse are some of the names.
College football blogger Q reports the Pac 12 released their 2012 College football schedule today. It starts on Thursday Aug. 30 with Northern Colorado visiting Utah. It end Nov. 30 with the second Pac-12 championship game. The new Pac 12 schedule will have 8 Thursday and Friday dates. Including Stanford at Washington on Sept. 27.
Just hitting the newswire from ESPN LA twitter. Jim L. Mora the former Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks head coach will be named the next head coach of the UCLA Bruins football team. His last NFL job was as the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks in the 2009. Before that he coached the Atlanta Falcons.
Northwest sports blogger Jason Green reports on the news that Seattle native and former Skyline High School star QB Jake Heaps has recently announced he will transfer from BYU. Now that Heaps is transferring the next question is where will he go? The WSU Cougars may be high on Connor Halliday, but Mike Leach might like Jake Heaps on the roster too.
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